Bryan, and became Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt. Her early life in both Chicago and Wash- ington acquainted Mrs. Sabin with the oddities and idiosyncrasies of the men who make our laws. As a child of five, she visited the government departments and saw Ruth Cleveland, then a baby, in the White House. It is one of her earliest recollections. She made her début at the Capital, and some of her old friends recall that she had an odd habit of leaving débutante dances and dragging her surprised escorts to the Senate Chamber to listen-in on night de bates. When she was eighteen, she mar- ried J. Hopkins Smith. For the next ten years she was occu- pied with raising two sons and with family life. In 1 9 1 5 she obtained a divorce, and a little more than . a year later she gave up an interior-decora- ting shop she had been running with another society w 0 man (it showed a profit of four thousand dollars a year) and married Charles Sabin. THE NEW YORKER M Rs. SABIN was not one of the pioneers in the suff- rage movement. In general, her stylish but sketchy e d u cat ion (private schools here and abroad) had train- ed her to be one of the well-mannered idle rather than an active participant in affairs of national import. T 0- day, she frankly ad- mits that she is largely self-taught; she has don e a pro dig i 0 u s amount of reading in the past twelve years and has become well- i n for m e d after the fashion of the corres- pondence-school stud- ent, by working at home. Although she took no active part in the suffrage war, she gave her finan- cial support. She was mod era tel y active 21 in charitable work and it was there, she says, that the first temptation to enter politics confronted her. "1 found," she explains, "that on charity boards in New York City you had to have poli- tical pull to get things done." There is probably more to the story than that; there were a restlessness and a will to power in her that needed something other than drawing-room triumphs for satisfaction. Anyway, the year 1919 found her giving elaborate lawn parties for Republican organizations at the Sabin estate, Bayberry Land, in the Shinnecock Hills, and in the same year she accepted a place on the Suffolk County committee. When Mrs. Sabin took part in her first national election, in 1920, she gave her talents to the consecrated task of placing Harding and Coolidge in the White House. As a member of the New York State ways-and-means com- mittee of her party (her husband, by the way, is a Democrat), she conceived the idea of collecting money by dis- tributing cardboard coin-holders made in the shape of an elephant's head. Hundreds of these were distributed among women; they held four quarters and five dimes, and the legend on them said, with simple eloquence : "To Hard- ing and Coolidge." At that time, Mrs. Sabin's political ',->:1&,-':, ,: i it " I" '" , , . wM.' d' I, f/ tf f . ....."""'.#'. '<:"::'\ '" ::-"" . 'O:...............-:;... ;:":::::: ;- :to { % ,j% .;. .: \ ; }. if:: ; .' " i . f "-- --- , ,:h;tA.. -=..:":::'" .........:.. '.. , .' ..::::.-:: =:; ; :........ .....:::::::: ::-:.:-.::::. ..... . ccy ou boys care for a little fun?"